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" In September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn - the climax of a 'day of awe,' as the press described it. "

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" Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb. "

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" The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert. "

" I haven't read Horowitz. I didn't used to read him when he was a Stalinist, and I don't read him today. "

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" I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors. "

" When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion. "

" The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. "

" Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg. "

" Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society. "

" In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them. "

" By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside. "

" The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free. "

" What's important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it's very high-quality oil, so very valuable. "

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" I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression. "

" The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant. "

" I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR. "

" The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital - in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations. "

" One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?' "

" The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place. "

" Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist. "

" If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you. "

" Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression. "

" Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic. "

" In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962. "

" Palestinians have no wealth or power. "

" All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. "

" Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States. "

" It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks. "

" I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function - that's important, and fine, and I support it. "

" It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association. "

" It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open. "